Image, Fullness, Void

ABSTRACT

I explore the status of image as handmaiden to thought to its role as harbinger and mediator of experiential realities. In the process, I touch an intimacy between image and the felt sense of experience, including a sense of the ineffable that is part of emotional life. Image may have been a second-class citizen in the history of Western thought, but it has always been valued by poets and mystics for its role in creative processes. An image-sense of plenitude and void, fullness and emptiness nourish varied forms of spirituality and form part of a basic rhythm in everyday life.

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Michael Eigen

Michael Eigen, Ph.D., is author of twenty-five books, including Image, Sense, Infinities and Everyday Life, Feeling Matters, The Psychoanalytic Mystic, The Psychotic Core, Faith, and Contact With the Depths. He teaches and supervises at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis and New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He gives a private seminar on Bion, Winnicott, Lacan and his own work, ongoing over forty years.